Effects of Macrostructural Parameters

Only very limited attention has been given to the extent to which the data and principles learned from slow thermal decomposition studies carry over into the fast regimes. Recent studies have tried to determine if the principal net reaction is the same in fast regimes as in slow regimes. 

In order to gain some insight into the chemical processes leading to initiation of detonation in solid explosives, recovery experiments have been carried out in which a solid CHNO explosive is subjected to subcritical-shocks and then analyzed for evidence of reaction [106, 107]. The results show that some chemical reaction has taken place, but the decomposition fragments have not yet been identified. Moreover, inorganic azides have not yet been studied in this manner. 

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